M0013585: Two women holding babies with tightly bandaged heads / M0013586: Newly born child, mother and midwife

Previous title, replaced January 2022: Babies with tightly bandaged heads.

Left-hand side: Reproduction of a photograph of two women holding babies with tightly bandaged heads to create an elongated skull, New Guinea. This reproduction was made from an unidentified photograph held by Wellcome Collection. Right-hand side: Reproduction of a photograph by Spink & Sons of a marble relief sculpture depicting a woman and child with midwife. This reproduction was made from another photograph of this image accessioned by the Wellcome Historical Medical Museum (PHO 4450).

July 1954

1 photograph glass plate negative; 12 x 16.5 cm

Wellcome Collection holds the accession register for other photographic copies:PHO 4450.

Catalogue data comes from a combination of entries in the original glass plate registers, metadata created when the glass plates were digitised in the early 2000s and enhancements made by the cataloguer in 2022.

Please consult the digitised version as this item is fragile. Email library@wellcomecollection.org to request access to the physical item.